AN AIA|LA CONFERENCE FOR HOUSING 2018
Catalyzed by the homelessness crisis in the Los Angeles region, the AIA|LA Design for Dignity Conference serves as a forum for the architectural community to coalesce around, initiate, and fulfill strategies that reduce homelessness and increase housing affordability.
Friday, July 13, 2018
8:00am-3:30pm
Studio-MLA
The full D4D3 schedule online here.
Speaker bios here.
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$95 for AIA Members
$135 to the public
The AIA|LA thanks Egan | Simon Architecture who are supporting discourse and action on homelessness and housing affordability as D4D’s Presenting Underwriter.
6.5 Health|Safety|Welfare Learning Units available.
To support Design for Dignity as a sponsor, with visibility and tickets for your firm, check back in Spring 2019.
Design for Dignity 3 will connect together a multidisciplinary set of practitioners and highlight opportunities for how to implement design solutions that can enliven the human spirit of our neighborhoods.
Proposition HHH will fund $1.2 Billion in Permanent Supportive Housing over the next ten years. The County’s Measure H will provide $355 annually for the next ten years to fund services and programs to prevent and mitigate the impacts of homelessness. LA City Council recently passed the PSH Ordinance to streamline the development of this desperately needed housing. Other ordinances have also recently passed that facilitate the conversion of motels into affordable housing, or facilitate the creation of more accessory dwelling units and garage-conversions, etc. There was even a County Arts Commission competition for how to deliver more ADU’s countywide.
In 2017, California legislators passed 15 housing-related bills that all attempt to provide a pathway forward to allow more housing in our neighborhoods. Furthermore, on the docket for this year: The 2018 Veterans and Affordable Housing Bond Act, if the voters approve in November 2018, will provide $4 Billion in funding sources.
Clearly, we’ve made it a priority to commit to the resources we need. Now it’s time to further connect with our neighbors and our communities and seek effective pathways forward to implement housing solutions as quickly as possible.
How do we best utilize these new tools, resources and strategies?
What’s the role of the architect and the designer?
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Throughout the year, the AIA|LA Design for Dignity Task Force on homelessness and housing affordability facilitates conference and related goals.